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Hi Guys, I just came to bed and tried the new version of QCAD, 3.10 on my Macbook retina and everything works fine with layers. I tried the old files and new ones and it is fine. Simple and powerful. So it must be a silly settings difference between my iMac and my Macbook. Perhaps I have the iMac se...

I tried yet another file from scratch. The default New. Apart from layer 0 I created 2 other layers: Red layer and Green layer. I drew a line with each layer and appended the edit layer dialog box to see how I set the layer attributes. But as you can see both the red and green layers show a line lik...

Ok I started a new file with three layers and enclose a screenshot highlighting the red layer and its corresponding Edit Layer dialog box. I then reloaded the same file and changed the linetype and lineweight of the red layer. Then drew another line and nothing happened, the changes are ignored. See...

Let me repeat your procedure Andrew and see if I discover something. I will get back to you.

Hello Andrew, Here is the info you requested, two attachment. If these check ok I will send the dxf file. But basically you can reproduce the fault yourself by defining a set of layers first with only colour attributes. Then draw a couple of lines to save the file. Thereafter reload the same file an...

Can I bring to your attention my feeling about QCAD after becoming a user for the last two or three weeks approximately and used it intensively on some 2D geometric figures I am drawing? My conclusion is that the program, attractive as it may be, is QCAD centric rather than user centric. What I mean...

I have a drawing with some 18 different layers. Each layer attributes is the same except for the colour which is different and specific to each layer. It all works fine. However, if I select any of the layers, except layer 0, and change any of the attributes, line type or line dimension, the changes...

Simple question: Can a block or selection be moved (nudged) from the keyboard using the arrow keys? I've tried different combinations but found none.

Good tips, Husky. Thanks.

Good morning Husky. Thanks for your replies. I will reply to your answers progressively. Scale Tool. I know how this works but it does not do scaling in the AC fashion. It is fine but somewhat limiting in some instances such as the work I am doing now where I have to scale a block over a picture of ...

Since I am using QCAD a lot now I thought of introducing myself. My name is Al, short for Alfie and I live in the UK. I am a retired semiconductor scientist and have been knowledgeable with Autocad since the early DOS days. My last copy was Autocad 2002 which I still have. I did not use CAD in my ca...

Thanks for your reply, Husky. I am pleased to hear that these functions are already part of the current version of Qcad. I have been trying this function for the last 30 minutes and I don't find it so straightforward and the choice of name was not at all helpful. No criticism implied, I will work wi...

Hi and thanks for your reply. I had to refresh my mind before answering, so I installed my old copy of Autocad 2002 for Windows on my iMac 5k; I had to install Windows first under Bootcamp and it works fine. In short: I was remembering correctly, this "dynamic" feature, as I called it, was available...

This is something that has changed in the most recent versions of Mac OS X. If you are comfortable working with a plain text editor, you can work around it by changing the file QCAD-Pro.app/Contents/Info.plist and removing the following 2 lines: <key>LSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> Yes I am co...

This is something that has changed in the most recent versions of Mac OS X. If you are comfortable working with a plain text editor, you can work around it by changing the file QCAD-Pro.app/Contents/Info.plist and removing the following 2 lines: <key>LSUIElement</key> <string>1</string> Yes I am co...